Chapter 178: Accidents
Zuo Fengyi, Chi Yang
Since the emperor evacuated from Chang'an, Li Jue led his troops to retreat to Chiyang.
First, he did not have the time to care about the lives and death of the people of Chang'an; second, he was originally a marquis of Chiyang, which was granted by the imperial court, and it was understandable that he would eat the fief of Chiyang.
"The Grand Sima is now considered a overlord in Chiyang." Looking at Li Jue, who was the head of Gaozu Mansion, Guo Si did not glar at him, but only looked at him with a smile and sighed.
"You don't need to be so polite to me." Li Jue waved his hand slightly, and he let Guo Si go to the saying, "I just ask you, do you know the news about Mei County?"
Seeing that Li Jue was straightforward, Guo Si was not shy, so he nodded and said, "It is rumored that Liu Bochang led his army from Hanzhong to Guanzhong. The vanguard Xu Huang led 10,000 elite soldiers, and with the strength of the Right Fufeng, there was no one to stop him."
"You Fufeng is now in ruins and is affected by the last war between Ma Shoucheng and others. There are not many garrisons now. It is probably difficult to reach the sky if you want to resist Liu Bochang's men. But what I am worried about now is not You Fufeng." Looking at Guo Si, Li Jue knew that he understood what he meant.
Sure enough, Li Jue said halfway, and after stopping, Guo Si's expression became embarrassing, "Do you think that this time, Liu Bo often entered Guanzhong not to welcome the emperor, but to occupy Guanzhong?"
Guo Si was a smart man, otherwise he would not have been entangled with Li Jue for so long when other Xiliang generals fell in love with each other. He knew that Li Jue had stayed in Chi Yang before and was about to dominate Guanzhong after the emperor left.
"Liu Bochang is a relative of the Han Dynasty. When he fought out from Chang'an, he was fighting for the title of supporting the Han Dynasty. Now that he returns to Guanzhong, does he dare not to welcome the emperor?" Guo Si was a little uncertain.
"Of course, Yingfeng will be Yingfeng. But if Zi is in Huayin today and he is in Ji County, he must be able to catch up with Yingfeng. What if he arrived in Huayin, the emperor had already left Guanzhong and headed to Shandong?"
Suddenly he was silent. In fact, Guo Si really underestimated Liu Fan before. His long-term life in Chang'an made him classify Liu Fan as a member of the ranks of ministers and ministers loyal to the Han Dynasty. However, since Liu Fan broke out of Chang'an, he probably no longer focused on the little emperor in the court.
"What do you mean?"
"Catch the little emperor, take the emperor's order and obey Liu Bo Chang's order!" Li Jie's eyes flashed. This was the method he thought about after thinking hard for a long time.
Upon hearing this, Guo Si also pondered his eyes and thought for a long time, but slowly shook his head, "Things may not be that simple. What you said just now made me suddenly realize that since he, Liu Bochang, did not sincerely welcome the emperor, if we threaten him with the emperor, would he go to war with us directly with the words of serving the king?"
His eyebrows were solemn, and Guo Si's words made Li Jue embarrassed. He knew the situation in Guanzhong. With the current military strength and military food foundation, it is difficult to gain advantage in the head-on conflict with Liu Fan.
Without any last resort, Li Jue did not want to go to war with Liu Fan.
In other words, Li Jue was thinking of at least to find out Liu Fan's reality and action. Instead of now, when everything is clear, he would start a rash battle with Liu Fan.
"Then according to your words, are we going to surrender to him, Liu Bochang?"
"Of course this is impossible!" He immediately rejected. Guo Si was not the kind of person who was willing to bow his head to others easily. After all, he had a high position in the past few years, and he had tasted the taste of power. He would definitely not be able to stand it if he asked him to go back to live his previous poor life.
"We can try to communicate with Liu Fan first, and lead the troops to take the young emperor back to Chang'an, and grant Liu Fan the official position in the name of the court. As long as he is stabilized, he will be able to end his military and food consumption, we will win without fighting."
"Liu Bochang is coming in this momentum, how could he retreat by himself without moving one soldier or another?" Li Jue frowned. He felt that Guo Si's thoughts were a bit too ideal.
After hearing what Li Jue said, Guo Si smiled slightly and raised his eyes slightly, "So at this time, the previous arrangement of Sima had achieved effect."
With his eyes narrowed slightly, Li Jue looked at Guo Si with a look of knowing it, and felt a little unhappy, "From your opinion, it seems that you know all my previous arrangements."
"I dare not dare!" He bowed and said that he did not dare, but his face was a little calm. "Guo Si naturally did not dare to argue with the plans of Grand Sima and Guanzhong. However, now Guanzhong and even us are in danger, so he asked Grand Sima to put the overall situation first. After all, our strong enemy is Liu Bochang."
He glanced at Guo Si coldly, and Li Jue snorted softly, "What should I do? I can't use you to teach me!"
"What the Grand Sima taught me is!" He lowered his head and nodded and smiled. Since he was defeated by Yang Feng and others, Guo Si knew that he was not strong enough and had lowered his mark.
"How many soldiers can you gather in your hands now?" Without talking nonsense to Guo Si, Li Jue directly confirmed the strength of his troops.
"Collapse the soldiers from the scattered troops and the various troops, no less than 5,000." Staring at Li Jue's expression, seeing him frowning slightly, Guo Si immediately added: "Gathering to recruit and recruit, it should be possible to add 3,000 more people!"
With a deep frown, Li Jue was not happy because Guo Si had increased the human race, but his face was still deep. "It is not a problem of soldiers at the moment, but a problem of food supply. If there is insufficient food, no matter how many people are, they will only be defeated by Liu Fan's army as soon as they rush."
"We are not weak, and we will sneak attack Liu Fan's grain road and rob him of his grain for our own use?" His eyes rolled, and Guo Si offered advice.
Holding the belt with both hands, Li Jue raised his head and looked at Guo Si's smiling face, and could not see his sincerity in offering suggestions. "This strategy is very wonderful. Why not let you, Guo Adu, lead your troops to rob Liu Fan's food route, and I will hold you in the back!"
Li Jue said something, and Guo Si's expression became stiff and he forced a little dry laughter. "The Grand Sima said just now that it is not appropriate to fight with Liu Fan. After the subsequent test of their strength, it is not impossible for us to send troops to rob the other party's food route."
With a cold snorting, Li Jue ignored Guo Si and turned back to the main case, "You go back and gather troops immediately, gather again in Chang'an in three days, send troops to Huayin, and rob the emperor of the emperor!"
"Here!" Su Rong bowed, and Guo Si could not continue to joke in the critical moment.
On Chi Yang, while Li Jue and Guo Si discussed recovering the emperor, a debate broke out in Huayin about the emperor's stay or not.
As the Huayin guard, Duan Wei has a relatively large military strength and influence in Huayin.
So when the emperor arrived in Huayin, Duan Wei respectfully followed the courtesy of his ministers and went to see him. However, because he had had friction with Yang Ding before, when Duan Wei led his soldiers to the emperor's headquarters with supplies, Yang Ding stopped him outside the door.
Duan Wei was also very angry and had a dispute with Yang Ding on the spot. Then Yang Biao, the head of the ministers, also stood up and spoke for Duan Wei. After all, Duan Wei brought the supplies they needed.
In terms of reason, Yang Biao had no reason to let Yang Ding mess up the matter. So under the pressure of a group of ministers led by Yang Biao, Yang Ding was finally forced to let Duan Wei go to the headquarters and pay homage to the emperor.
During the visit, Duan Wei followed the trend and asked the emperor to enter Huayin City first to stay temporarily. The situation in Guanzhong is changing rapidly. Maybe when Liu Zhenwu arrives in Chang'an, everything will improve.
Liu Xie was very interested in Duan Wei's proposal, but the ministers and ministers firmly opposed the boycott.
But Yang Biao, as the representative of the ministers, did not keep the same agreement with the ministers for the first time this time, but he remained silent and did not express his opinions. Seeing Yang Biao's reaction in his eyes, Duan Wei's heart was clear. As Jia Xu analyzed, the Yang family, as a prominent family in Guanxi, definitely hoped that the emperor would stay in Guanxi.
As long as the emperor is in Guanxi, for more than a hundred years, let alone Yuan’s family, it is hard to say whether the influence of his Liu clan is comparable to that of the Yang clan. Therefore, Yang Biao would never stop the proposal to leave the emperor in Guanxi.
Of course, the premise is that there is a good environment for Kansai. As long as there are strong generals who can conquer all directions, there are still many Kansai scholars who support the emperor to stay in Chang'an.
First of all, when Dong Zhuo moved the capital to Chang'an, he had already burned Luoyang to death. Even if he returned to Luoyang, he would be in a state of chaos. With today's turmoil, the court had no spare time to rebuild Luoyang.
Secondly, when Dong Zhuo moved the capital to Luoyang, he also took advantage of the situation to clarify the contradiction between Shandong and Guanxi. People like Yang Biao who were willing to follow the emperor to Chang'an have old ministers who were obsessed with the Han Dynasty and remained unswervingly, but among them, there were scholars who belonged to Guanxi.
And those middle-aged and young people who did not come to Chang'an with Dong Zhuo and remained in Shandong and were enthroned as pastoral guards of various prefectures and counties have become the core figures of the Shandong forces today.
If Yang Biao and the others return to Luoyang, it means that the Shandong forces have to bow their heads. Although they have always followed the emperor's court, they will still be blessed by the powerful Shandong warlords.
Therefore, if the situation in Guanzhong was not really difficult, the imperial court officials in Chang'an would not have walked east with the young emperor.
"Your Majesty, I finally think that the situation in Guanzhong is now chaotic and should not stay for a long time. I would like to ask Your Majesty to withdraw from Guanzhong first. After the situation in Guanzhong is stable, it is not impossible to decide whether to return to Chang'an!" After the old ministers who insisted on returning to the east expressed their opinions, Yang Ding, as the general of the guard, also expressed his thoughts.
As one of the two major forces that protect the emperor, Yang Ding's words are still very important to Liu Xie.
He turned his eyes to Dong Cheng, and Liu Xie tried to get some information from him, but in the end, Dong Cheng did not make any statement. With the fact that there were many voices opposing the stranded in Guanzhong just now, Liu Xie had to say: "Although what General Duan said makes sense, since I have decided to return to the east, it is not appropriate to change the orders in the morning and night. So please let go of this matter before we discuss it. Now it is still the main focus of Dongrong!"
After Liu Xie finished speaking, the matter basically set the tone. Duan Wei sighed quietly in his heart, but the result was the same as Jia Xu expected, so Duan Wei had to bow and say goodbye.
However, when he was about to leave the headquarters, Duan Wei didn't know if he could not stand Yang Ding's verbal attack or why, and directly broke out in a fight with Yang Ding.
After all, they were in the emperor's camp, and both sides were relatively restrained, and finally they dispersed in anger.
After Yang Ding returned to his headquarters camp, he became more and more angry as he thought about it. Finally, he led his troops directly to attack Duan Wei. As for Duan Wei, he seemed to have the same idea and led his soldiers to guard the gate.
The battle between the two sides was about to break out. After several hours of fighting, Duan Wei successfully used two-wing ambush to repel Yang Ding's troops. Yang Ding's great defeat directly led to the decline of his voice in the temporary marching force of the emperor.
Therefore, the Guanxi scholars who had originally clamored that the emperor would continue to stay in Guanzhong also began to persuade the emperor to move to Huayin first and then make plans after the situation stabilized.
The emperor was also quite interested in this, after all, he still had high expectations for his uncle Liu Fan.
The only factor in the Emperor's Group that hinders the movement to Huayin is probably the group led by Yang Feng.
As long as the emperor is in Guanxi, for more than a hundred years, let alone Yuan's family, it is hard to say whether the influence of his Liu clan is comparable to that of the Yang clan. Therefore, Yang Biao will never stop the proposal to keep the emperor in Guanxi. Of course, the premise is that Guanxi can have a good environment. As long as there are strong generals who can conquer the four sides to take charge of the overall situation, there are still many Guanxi scholars who support the emperor in Chang'an.
First of all, when Dong Zhuo moved the capital to Chang'an, he had already burned Luoyang to death. Even if he returned to Luoyang, he would be in a state of chaos. With today's turmoil, the court had no spare time to rebuild Luoyang.
Secondly, when Dong Zhuo moved the capital to Luoyang, he also took advantage of the situation to clarify the contradiction between Shandong and Guanxi. People like Yang Biao who were willing to follow the emperor to Chang'an have old ministers who were obsessed with the Han Dynasty and remained unswervingly, but among them, there were scholars who belonged to Guanxi.
And those middle-aged and young people who did not come to Chang'an with Dong Zhuo and remained in Shandong and were enthroned as pastoral guards of various prefectures and counties have become the core figures of the Shandong forces today.
If Yang Biao and the others return to Luoyang, it means that the Shandong forces have to bow their heads. Although they have always followed the emperor's court, they will still be blessed by the powerful Shandong warlords.
Therefore, if the situation in Guanzhong was not really difficult, the imperial court officials in Chang'an would not have walked east with the young emperor.
"Your Majesty, I finally think that the situation in Guanzhong is now chaotic and should not stay for a long time. I would like to ask Your Majesty to withdraw from Guanzhong first. After the situation in Guanzhong is stable, it is not impossible to decide whether to return to Chang'an!" After the old ministers who insisted on returning to the east expressed their opinions, Yang Ding, as the general of the guard, also expressed his thoughts.
As one of the two major forces that protect the emperor, Yang Ding's words are still very important to Liu Xie.
He turned his eyes to Dong Cheng, and Liu Xie tried to get some information from him, but in the end, Dong Cheng did not make any statement. With the fact that there were many voices opposing the stranded in Guanzhong just now, Liu Xie had to say: "Although what General Duan said makes sense, since I have decided to return to the east, it is not appropriate to change the orders in the morning and night. So please let go of this matter before we discuss it. Now it is still the main focus of Dongrong!"
After Liu Xie finished speaking, the matter basically set the tone. Duan Wei sighed quietly in his heart, but the result was the same as Jia Xu expected, so Duan Wei had to bow and say goodbye.
Chapter completed!